Afternoon Tea with 5 award winning Western Australian women poets - Marcella Polain, Elizabeth Lewis, Morgan Yasbincek, Sari Smith, Jan Teagle Kapetas

Over recent years, the five Raw Colour poets and writers have been meeting together on Saturday afternoons. You are invited to join them in the creative atmosphere at The Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10 on Saturday 23 October as they respond to the exhibition.

Marcella Polain writes widely published award-winning poetry, narrative fiction and creative non-fiction. Marcella has been writing and performing for more than 50 years and taught writing for forty.

Elizabeth Lewis is a singer, writer, poet and workshop facilitator. Passionate about connecting and promoting local writers and artists, Elizabeth is the Chairperson of the Katherine Susannah Pritchard writers Centre. 

Morgan Yasbincek is an award-winning poet and prose writer. She has held a residency at East Anglia University in the UK, coordinated performance events, and taught creative writing at several universities.

Sari Smith has published short prose fiction, prose poetry, ficto-criticism, memoir, and essays for more than 30 years, taught writing in universities, and established the inaugural life writing courses (journal writing, autobiography and memoir) in the School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne.

Jan Teagle Kapetas has worked/played/lived in Australian landscapes of community-based creative arts while writing award-winning fiction and poetry.